Word: secularized
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...broader scale, royalty commands loyalty perhaps because monarchs are the last great icons of our secular age, the only larger-than-life figures who can still quicken belief while dwelling in mystery. If God is dead, long live the Queen! Their titles alone suggest that kings and princesses are ambassadors from the realm of fairy tale: Who ever heard of Good President Wenceslaus or The Prime Minister and the Pea? And if the very rich, as Hemingway said, are different from you and me, then the royals are different from the very rich, separated by some indefinable chasm from those...
Many Israelis worry about the moral cost of the occupation. "There is a growing divide between religious and secular Israelis," says Amnon Rubinstein, leader of the small Shinui party. "We are already two different societies." Meron Benvenisti, head of the West Bank Data Project, believes "Israel is becoming a binational state with two systems of government, one for Jews, one for Arabs." He adds, "It is a system that partly integrates the things Israel wants to integrate, like the land, water rights and security zones, and excludes what Israel does not want, like the Arabs...
...Bakker aides who were later to be sacked by Falwell for mismanagement, would remain in charge. Subsequently, Falwell "betrayed" him, said Bakker, who added, "I mean, I sit back and I say, 'Dear God, how could we have our ministry stolen from us?' " Bakker said if PTL were a secular business, Falwell would be sent to jail for taking over "under false pretenses...
...more secular note, the pseudo-philosophers expounded on their version of life's most probing questions. What is justice? The meaning of life? The purpose behind graffiti...
...aspects of the "Socialist dream" in adolescence and taught philosophy at New York University for more than four decades. There, as in such books as The Hero in History, The Paradoxes of Freedom and Pragmatism and the Tragic Sense of Life, Hook established a well-founded reputation as a secular humanist. He questioned received ideas and challenged those who substituted passion for logic. The professor played no favorites, and few were happy with his investigations. To '30s conservatives, he seemed a Marxist apologist; to '60s New Leftists, he was a cold warrior. But as his autobiography proves, the only group...